Joe Bob Briggs: Thank God, the Shar-Pei Puppies and the Manet Paintings Are All Safe (Taki's Magazine)
"The safest place for the Getty treasures," said the museum director, "is inside the Getty."
The walls are fire-resistant travertine, reinforced by concrete and steel. The roof is made of crushed stone, so wind-borne embers have no chance of igniting. Even the landscaping on the grounds of the museum is fire-resistant, with a million-gallon water tank ready to be activated anytime heat touches the ground. But what about the smoke? No problem, say the Getty engineers. The museum is actually a building-within-a-building, with air systems between the two outer walls that allow the whole complex to be hermetically sealed and for air to be recirculated the same way it's done on aircraft.
Guy Fawkes Night, also known as Guy Fawkes Day, Bonfire Night and Firework Night, commemorates the failed Gunpowder Plot of 1605. On what date does the UK celebrate Guy Fawkes and his failed assassination attempt?
Guy Fawkes Night, also known as Guy Fawkes Day, Bonfire Night and Firework Night, is an annual commemoration observed on 5 November, primarily in the United Kingdom. Its history begins with the events of 5 November 1605 O.S., when Guy Fawkes, a member of the Gunpowder Plot, was arrested while guarding explosives the plotters had placed beneath the House of Lords. Celebrating the fact that King James I had survived the attempt on his life, people lit bonfires around London; and months later, the introduction of the Observance of 5th November Act enforced an annual public day of thanksgiving for the plot's failure.
Within a few decades Gunpowder Treason Day, as it was known, became the predominant English state commemoration, but as it carried strong Protestant religious overtones it also became a focus for anti-Catholic sentiment. Puritans delivered sermons regarding the perceived dangers of popery, while during increasingly raucous celebrations common folk burnt effigies of popular hate-figures, such as the pope. Towards the end of the 18th century reports appear of children begging for money with effigies of Guy Fawkes and 5 November gradually became known as Guy Fawkes Day.
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Randall was first, and correct, with:
Nov 5th
Mark. wrote:
Remember, remember!
The fifth of November,
The Gunpowder treason and plot;
I know of no reason
Why the Gunpowder treason
Should ever be forgot!
Mac Mac said:
November 5
Alan J answered:
The Fifth of November.
Dave responded:
November 5th. The good ole' Gunpowder Plot.
Kevin K. in Washington, DC, replied:
Remember, the Fifth of November...
John Lennon
mj wrote:
Remember, remember
The 5th of November, the Gunpowder treason and plot.
I know of no reason the Gunpowder treason should ever be forgot.
zorch responded:
Remember remember the 5th of November.
Linda >^..^< ( We are all only temporarily able bodied. ), replied:
November 5th!
Remember, remember the Fifth of November,
The Gunpowder Treason and Plot,
I know of no reason
Why the Gunpowder Treason
Should ever be forgot.
Jim from CA, retired to ID, said:
November 5
Micki wrote:
November 5. Guy Fawkes was the inspiration for V For Vendetta.
George M. answered:
Marty, if my memory serves me correctly, Guy Fawkes Day is commemorated on November 5th.
As it was proclaimed in the motion picture, "V For Vendetta", - Remember, Remember, the Fifth of November."
Daniel in The City responded:
Remember, remember, the fifth of November, the Gunpowder Treason and plot.
Dave in Tucson replied:
Guy Fawkes Day is the 5th of November.
As mentioned by John Lennon
Paul of Seattle wrote:
That would be November 5th
Spent many an hour lighting fireworks and the cool thing is it gets dark early so you don't have to wait.
Joe S said:
All I could think of is "Remember, remember the 5th of November." I didn't know if that was right or I had it mixed up with our U.S. elections, so I looked it up. Turns out I was right. History majors never forget anything. I have also had the Rolling Stones song, "Faraway Eyes" running through my head all day. In case you were interested.
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BANDCAMP MUSIC THAT YOU PROBABLY WON'T HEAR ON THE RADIO
Music: "Tomorrow's Sweet Sunrise" from the album EXTRAORDINARY LOVE
Artist: Dave "Hedgehog" Mason
Artist Location: Cincinnati, Ohio
Info: "I am a British-born, South African-raised singer/songwriter and bagpiper/composer and stay-at-home dad currently living in Cincinnati, OH and currently playing farmers markets, coffee houses, and open mics in and around the tri-state [Ohio, Kentucky, Indiana] area."
"This is a hella-good melodic protest song against school shootings." - Bruce
"Tomorrow's Sweet Sunrise" is track 10 of this 10-track album.
Some Lyrics:
IF I COULD MAKE A DIFFERENCE HERE AND NOT JUST TURN AWAY
OR WRITE SOME WORDS TO SING THAT MIGHT MAKE PEOPLE FEEL OKAY
I REALIZE WE CANNOT PLEASE ALL PEOPLE ALL OF THE TIME
BUT WE DON'T HAVE TO BE CRUEL JUST TO BE KIND
IMAGINE SLEEPING PEACEFUL NEVER HEARING SOMEONE SAY
SEVENTEEN YOUNG KIDS DIED IN SCHOOL TODAY.
Price: $1 (USA) for song; $7 for 10-song album
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• Very early in her career, American painter Mary Cassatt wanted to get one of her paintings in the prestigious Salon exhibition in Paris. She felt that the judges selecting which paintings would be hung in the exhibition favored foreign artists, so she submitted a painting that was signed only with her first and middle names - "Mary Stevenson" - because she knew that her middle name sounded more foreign in France than "Cassatt." The idea worked. The judges selected her painting to be hung in the exhibition.
• Chicago-born artist Judy Cohen ended up choosing to use a different name: Judy Chicago. She worked in California, and because she had a heavy Chicago accent, lots of her fellow artists called her Judy Chicago. In addition, lots of artists in Los Angeles used underground names in the telephone book listings, so Judy used "Judy Chicago." Her name does have a major advantage. When she returns to Chicago and tells people her name, they exclaim, "What a great name!"
• In 1917, Marc Chagall created his "Self-Portrait with Seven Fingers." It shows him painting a scene set in his Russian hometown. Why is the artist portrayed with seven fingers on his left hand? A Yiddish proverb states that something done with seven fingers is done well.
Nudity
• In 1534, Pope Paul III asked Michelangelo to paint the Last Judgment on the altar wall of the Sistine Chapel. Michelangelo worked on the painting for five and a half years, beginning in 1536. Finally, when on October 31, 1541, Pope Paul III saw the completed work of art without parts of it hidden by scaffolding, he was overcome by its artistic and spiritual vision and fell to his knees. The painting was not without controversy. While Michelangelo was working on the painting, papal court official Biaglio da Cesena objected to the nudity of the figures. Michelangelo showed his opinion of Biaglio's views of art by putting him in the painting - Biaglio is shown in hell, with horns, and with his nudity covered by a serpent's coils. Biaglio was not amused, but Pope Paul III was.
• Artists frequently work with nude models. Artists John "Jack" Baldwin (an Ohio University art professor) and his wife, Bunny, once took a vacation in Mexico, where they went to a clothing-optional beach. Bunny pointed out a particularly beautiful naked woman to Jack, who told her, "I am not here to work.
One-Man Shows
• Visual artist David Estey had as a teacher the painter Robert Hamilton at the Rhode Island School of Design. When Mr. Hamilton retired, he kept on painting even though his property in Maine had two buildings that were filled with his paintings. When Mr. Estey asked Mr. Hamilton why he was still painting, he replied that he painted to surprise himself: "If I don't have a surprise each day, I've had a bad day."
• American artist Arthur G. Dove was an early painter of abstractions at a time when this style was not understood. His first one-man show, which was titled The Ten Commandments, failed. The show upset some art students so badly that they made dolls of Mr. Dove and stuck pins into them.
A 'Congregation' of egrets gather to feed on small fish running into a cut from the very nearby Saginaw Bay (Lake Huron), Essexville, MI, the morning of November 3rd... They'll be moving on shortly southward collectively, the migration soon to begin...
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CBS begins the night with a FRESH'NCIS', followed by a FRESH'FBI', then a FRESH'NCIS: The 3rd One'.
Scheduled on a FRESHStephen Colbert are Elizabeth Banks, Sen. Amy Klobuchar, and King Princess.
Scheduled on a FRESHJames Corden, OBE, are Hillary Rodham Clinton, Chelsea Clinton, and Sheryl Crow.
NBC starts the night with a FRESH'The Voice', followed by a FRESH'This Is Us', then a FRESH'New Amsterdam'.
Scheduled on a FRESHJimmy Fallon are Adam Sandler, Jenny Slate, and Megan Gailey.
Scheduled on a FRESHSeth Meyers are Kristin Chenoweth, Michael Kelly, Sinéad Burke, and Brendan Buckley.
Scheduled on a FRESHLilly Singh are Ewan McGregor and Rebecca Ferguson.
ABC opens the night with a FRESH'The Little Mermaid Live!', followed by a FRESH'Emergence'.
Scheduled on a FRESHJimmy Kimmel are Mandy Moore, Josh Lucas, and Hootie & the Blowfish.
The CW offers a FRESH'The Flash', followed by a FRESH'Arrow'.
Faux has a FRESH'The Resident', followed by a FRESH'Empire'.
MY recycles an old 'Chicago PD', followed by another old 'Chicago PD'.
AMC offers the movie 'Ferris Bueller's Day Off', followed by the movie 'Vegas Vacation', then the movie 'National Lampoon's Vacation'.
BBC -
[6:00AM] WEIRD WONDERS - SEASON 1 - EPISODE 1
[7:00AM] WEIRD WONDERS - SEASON 1 - EPISODE 2
[8:00AM] WEIRD WONDERS - SEASON 1 - EPISODE 3
[9:00AM] WEIRD WONDERS - SEASON 1 - EPISODE 4
[10:00AM] WEIRD WONDERS - SEASON 1 - EPISODE 5
[11:00AM] WEIRD WONDERS - SEASON 1 - EPISODE 6
[12:00PM] PLANET EARTH: THE HUNT - SEASON 1 - EPISODE 1
[1:00PM] PLANET EARTH: THE HUNT - SEASON 1 - EPISODE 2
[2:00PM] PLANET EARTH: THE HUNT - SEASON 1 - EPISODE 3-Hide And Seek - Jungles
[3:00PM] PLANET EARTH: THE HUNT - TSEASON 1 - EPISODE 4-Hunger At Sea - Oceans
[4:00PM] PLANET EARTH: THE HUNT - SEASON 1 - EPISODE 5-Nowhere To Hide - Plains
[5:00PM] PLANET EARTH: THE HUNT - SEASON 1 - EPISODE 6-Race Against Time - Coasts
[6:00PM] PLANET EARTH - SEASON 1 - EPISODE 1-From Pole To Pole
[7:00PM] PLANET EARTH - SEASON 1 - EPISODE 2-Mountains
[8:00PM] PLANET EARTH - SEASON 1 - EPISODE 3-Fresh Water
[9:00PM] PLANET EARTH - SEASON 1 - EPISODE 4-Caves
[10:00PM] PLANET EARTH - SEASON 1 - EPISODE 5-Deserts
[11:00PM] PLANET EARTH - SEASON 1 - EPISODE 6-Ice Worlds
[12:00AM] WEIRD WONDERS - SEASON 1 - EPISODE 1
[1:00AM] WEIRD WONDERS - SEASON 1 - EPISODE 2
[2:00AM] WEIRD WONDERS - SEASON 1 - EPISODE 3
[3:00AM] WEIRD WONDERS - SEASON 1 - EPISODE 4
[4:00AM] WEIRD WONDERS - SEASON 1 - EPISODE 5
[5:00AM] WEIRD WONDERS - SEASON 1 - EPISODE 6 (ALL TIMES EDT)
Bravo has 'Real Housewives Of OC', followed by a FRESH'Real Housewives Of OC', then another FRESH'Real Housewives Of OC', another 'Real Housewives Of OC', followed by a FRESH'Watch What Happens Live'.
Comedy Central has 2 hours of old 'The Office', an hour of old 'Tosh.0', followed by a FRESH'Tosh.0', then a FRESH'The Jim Jefferies Show'.
Scheduled on a FRESHThe Daily Show are Sen. Cory Booker and Edward Norton.
Scheduled on a FRESHLights Out with David Spade are Bobby Lee and Theo Von.
FX has the movie 'Kingsman: The Golden Circle', followed by a FRESH'Mayans MC'.
History has 'The Curse Of Oak Island', followed by a FRESH'The Curse Of Oak Island: Drilling Down', then a FRESH'The Curse Of Oak Island'.
IFC -
[6:45A] The Poseidon Adventure
[9:15A] Star Trek: Insurrection
[11:30A] Star Trek: Nemesis
[2:00P] Terminator 2: Judgment Day
[5:00P] Face/Off
[8:00P] Taken
[10:00P] Taken
[12:00A] Face/Off
[3:00A] The Poseidon Adventure
[5:30A] The Three Stooges - Pardon My Scotch (ALL TIMES EST)
Sundance -
[6:30am] The Andy Griffith Show
[7:00am] The Andy Griffith Show
[7:30am] The Andy Griffith Show
[8:00am] The Andy Griffith Show
[8:30am] In the Valley of Elah
[11:00am] Saving Private Ryan
[3:00pm] Criminal Minds
[4:00pm] Criminal Minds
[5:00pm] Criminal Minds
[6:00pm] Criminal Minds
[7:00pm] Criminal Minds
[8:00pm] Criminal Minds
[9:00pm] Criminal Minds
[10:00pm] Criminal Minds
[11:00pm] Criminal Minds
[12:00am] Criminal Minds
[1:00am] Criminal Minds
[2:00am] Criminal Minds
[3:00am] Stand by Me
[5:00am] The Andy Griffith Show
[5:35am] The Andy Griffith Show (ALL TIMES EST)
SyFy has the movie 'Journey To The Center Of The Earth', followed by the movie 'Fantastic 4: Rise Of The Silver Surfer'.
Talk show host Ellen DeGeneres will be honored with the Carol Burnett Award at the 77th annual Golden Globe Awards in January.
The award is the highest level of achievement in television and will mark DeGeneres' fourth Golden Globe Award.
"The Hollywood Foreign Press Association is delighted to honor Ellen DeGeneres with the Carol Burnett Award," said Lorenzo Soria, president of the HFPA, in a press release announcing the news. "From her sitcoms, to stand-up, to becoming a household staple on daytime television, she is a pioneer who has captivated audiences for nearly 25 years with her undeniable charm and wit."
The award honors a celebrity who has made "outstanding contributions to the television medium on or off the screen."
DeGeneres will be the second recipient of the award, the first being Burnett herself at last year's Golden Globes.
Jamie's (Helen Hunt) mom, Theresa, will be paying a visit in Spectrum Originals' Mad About You. Carol Burnett will return to reprise her role as Theresa Stemple in an upcoming episode of the revival starring original series stars Hunt and Paul Reiser.
The new installment is set 20 years after the original series' seven-season run ended on NBC in 1999. The revival will explore the fertile ground of modern marriage through the eyes of the Buchmans (Reiser and Hunt) as newly minted empty-nesters after dropping their unpredictable, hard-to-control daughter Mabel (Abby Quinn) off at college. Original cast members John Pankow and Richard Kind also reprise their respective roles as Ira Buchman and Dr. Mark Devanow.
The first six episodes of the Sony Pictures TV-produced limited series will arrive November 20, and the final six will be released on Wednesday, December 18.
The original sitcom ran for seven seasons from 1992-99 and won multiple Emmy and Golden Globe awards. All 164 original episodes are available free on-demand for Spectrum subscribers.
The Salt Lake Tribune hopes its new status as a nonprofit will ensure its long-term viability in an industry in crisis - and other newspapers suffering amid the same declines in advertising and circulation revenues are expected to be watching closely.
The newspaper will be governed by a board of directors and rely on donations under a plan the Tribune said Monday has been approved by the IRS six months after the Utah news outlet made the request. The newspaper will maintain editorial independence and enact a strict firewall between reporters and donors to prevent influence or sway, just as newspapers have long done with advertisers, owner and publisher Paul Huntsman said in a news release.
One difference, though, is that the Tribune editorial board will no longer make candidate endorsements.
The plan is similar to arrangements at the Philadelphia Inquirer and Tampa Bay Times, which are owned by nonprofit foundations. The Tribune's arrangement is different and noteworthy because the newspaper itself becomes a nonprofit.
Now that the IRS has made the precedent-setting decision, the nontraditional model could be followed by a number of other news outlets around the country that are exploring ways to survive, Ibargüen said.
"Brothers and sisters," the seminary instructor tells his class, don't believe in God because of your parents' beliefs but because "you know why God exists."
The challenge spurs a discussion about beliefs. But more than Imam Mohammad Qazwini's interesting delivery, deep understanding of Islam and his formal training at a seminary in the holy city of Qom, Iran, have drawn them to this suburban Detroit classroom just off the large prayer room of a mosque.
He speaks their language - literally.
An increasing number of U.S. Muslims want guidance from religious instructors who they can understand linguistically and culturally. The Quran, Islam's holy book, is written in classical Arabic, but many of the students aren't well-versed in the language. Qazwini navigates the intricacies of Arabic effortlessly - in the everyday English they use, opening a door for many of the students and meeting an increasing need.
Traditional imams and scholars who once came from the Middle East or were educated in schools there are having more difficulty entering the United States. The Trump administration imposed a travel ban in January 2017 on people from several Muslim majority countries, and the government has made it harder to enter the U.S. entirely, with more rigorous interviews and background checks.
In the Oval Office, an annoyed President Donald Trump (R-Deluded) ended an argument he was having with his aides. He reached into a drawer, took out his iPhone and threw it on top of the historic Resolute Desk: "Do you want me to settle this right now?"
There was no missing Trump's threat that day in early 2017, the aides recalled. With a tweet, he could fling a directive to the world, and there was nothing they could do about it.
When Trump entered office, Twitter was a political tool that had helped get him elected and a digital howitzer that he relished firing. In the years since, he has fully integrated Twitter into the very fabric of his administration, reshaping the nature of the presidency and presidential power.
After Turkey invaded northern Syria this past month, he crafted his response not only in White House meetings but also in a series of contradictory tweets. This summer, he announced increased tariffs on $300 billion worth of Chinese goods, using a tweet to deepen tensions between the two countries. And in March, Trump cast aside more than 50 years of U.S. policy, tweeting his recognition of Israel's sovereignty in the Golan Heights. He openly delighted in the reaction he provoked.
Early on, top aides wanted to restrain the president's Twitter habit, even considering asking the company to impose a 15-minute delay on Trump's messages. But 11,390 presidential tweets later, many administration officials and lawmakers embrace his Twitter obsession, flocking to his social media chief with suggestions. Policy meetings are hijacked when Trump gets an idea for a tweet, drawing in cabinet members and others for wordsmithing. And as a president often at war with his own bureaucracy, he deploys Twitter to break through logjams, overrule or humiliate recalcitrant advisers and preempt his staff.
Hundreds of people protested in Spain's capital on Monday against a court ruling last week that cleared five men of gang-raping a 14-year-old girl and instead found them guilty of the lesser charge of sexual abuse.
Barcelona's High Court sentenced the five on Thursday to 10 to 12 years in prison, saying the 2016 assault was not rape because the victim, who was drunk and unconscious, could neither "agree to (nor) oppose the sexual relations".
A similar ruling in the so-called Wolfpack case sparked mass protests across Spain last year over chauvinism and sexual abuse and it was eventually overturned by the Supreme Court in June.
"It's not abuse, it's rape" and "Enough with patriarchal justice" chanted the crowd made up mostly of women gathered in front of the Justice Ministry in Madrid.
Many were wearing purple scarves, a colour associated with feminist movements, while others carried purple umbrellas or wore purple gloves.
Brazilian President Jair Bolsonaro said Sunday that "the worst is yet to come" with an oil spill that has affected more than 200 beaches on the country's coast.
"What came so far and what was collected is a small amount of what was spilled," Bolsonaro said in an interview with Record television.
Oil slicks have been appearing for three months off the coast of northeast Brazil and fouling beaches along a 2,000 kilometer (1,250 mile) area of Brazil's most celebrated shoreline.
The government on Friday named a Greek-flagged tanker as the prime suspect behind the oil slicks.
Everything we think we know about the shape of the universe could be wrong. Instead of being flat like a bedsheet, our universe may be curved, like a massive, inflated balloon, according to a new study.
That's the upshot of a new paper published today (Nov. 4) in the journal Nature Astronomy, which looks at data from the cosmic microwave background (CMB), the faint echo of the Big Bang. But not everyone is convinced; the new findings, based on data released in 2018, contradict both years of conventional wisdom and another recent study based on that same CMB data set.
If the universe is curved, according to the new paper, it curves gently. That slow bending isn't important for moving around our lives, or solar system, or even our galaxy. But travel beyond all of that, outside our galactic neighborhood, far into the deep blackness, and eventually - moving in a straight line - you'll loop around and end up right back where you started. Cosmologists call this idea the "closed universe." It's been around for a while, but it doesn't fit with existing theories of how the universe works. So it's been largely rejected in favor of a "flat universe" that extends without boundary in every direction and doesn't loop around on itself. Now, an anomaly in data from the best-ever measurement of the CMB offers solid (but not absolutely conclusive) evidence that the universe is closed after all, according to the authors: University of Manchester cosmologist Eleonora Di Valentino, Sapienza University of Rome cosmologist Alessandro Melchiorri and Johns Hopkins University cosmologist Joseph Silk.
The difference between a closed and open universe is a bit like the difference between a stretched flat sheet and an inflated balloon, Melchiorri told Live Science. In either case, the whole thing is expanding. When the sheet expands, every point moves away from every other point in a straight line. When the balloon is inflated, every point on its surface gets farther away from every other point, but the balloon's curvature makes the geometry of that movement more complicated.
"This means, for example, that if you have two photons and they travel in parallel in a closed universe, they will [eventually] meet," Melchiorri said.
Weeks after a stray puppy was discovered in a backyard in rural Australia, DNA tests revealed that the furry creature is not a dog at all but an Australian alpine dingo.
The news was a welcome surprise for conservationists: Australian alpine dingoes are an endangered species vulnerable to extinction because of inbreeding, hunting and government eradication programs, according to the Australia and Pacific Science Foundation.
The dingo pup, since named Wandi, was discovered in August in the backyard of a resident in Wandiligong, a rural town in the Australian state of Victoria, the Australian Dingo Foundation announced Thursday.
Lyn Watson, who directs the Australian Dingo Foundation, told the Australian Broadcasting Corp. that of the three types of Australian dingoes, which include inland and tropical, alpine dingoes like Wandi are the only ones currently in danger of extinction.
Experts say most dingoes in the island country are dog-dingo hybrids, Australian Geographic noted in a 2011 article about the potential extinction of purebred dingoes.
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